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Floating in My Mother's Palm
Contributor(s): Hegi, Ursula (Author)

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 ISBN: 0684854759     ISBN-13: 9780684854755
Publisher: Touchstone Books
OUR PRICE: $13.29  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 1998
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Annotation: Glowing with the beauty and trouble of unconventionality, with the quest to transcend human tragedy, "Floating in My Mother's Palm" presents "an absolutely correct postwar Germany with all its forbidden questions and mysterious behavior, all its squalor, loss, and longing" ("Los Angeles Times").
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical - World War Ii
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 98022568
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.55 lbs) 192 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1950's
- Cultural Region - Western Europe
- Demographic Orientation - Small Town
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Publisher Description:
Floating in My Mother's Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly brought to life in her bestselling novel Stones from the River. Hanna's courageous voice evokes her unconventional mother, who swims during thunderstorms; the illegitimate son of an American GI, who learns from Hanna about his father; and the librarian, Trudi Montag, who lets Hanna see her hometown from a dwarf's extraordinary point of view. Although Ursula Hegi wrote Floating in My Mother's Palm first, it can be read as a sequel to Stones from the River.

Contributor Bio(s): Hegi, Ursula: - Ursula Hegi is the author of The Worst Thing I've Done, Sacred Time, Hotel of the Saints, The Vision of Emma Blau, Tearing the Silence, Salt Dancers, Stones from the River, Floating in My Mother's Palm, Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories, Intrusions, and Trudi & Pia. She teaches writing at Stonybrook's Southhampton Campus and she is the recipient of more than thirty grants and awards.
 
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